Ways to Explore

592: Are We There Yet?

Jul 29, 2016

A bunch of us from our show went to refugee camps all over Greece. We found people falling in love, kids mad at their parents for dragging them to Europe, women doing their laundry in a baseball stadium locker room, and hundreds of people living at a gas station—sitting next to the pumps, smoking. Also: wild pigs. 57,000 refugees are stuck in Greece, making homes in some surprising locations. We hear what that’s really like. INTERACTIVE TOUR | PART TWO

How to Help: A list of some groups we interacted with directly while working on this week's show.

The refugee camps in Greece are in a crazy variety of places: an abandoned beach resort, an Olympic baseball stadium, a highway rest stop, the grounds of an old psychiatric hospital. We sent a group of architects and engineers to capture each camp so that you can take a tour to see how people live on the third base line.

We were interested in how the Greek government was dealing with the refugees, but
we also wanted to know what it was like for all these people who thought they were
heading elsewhere in Europe who are now stuck in these camps, where they’re just
waiting for some country to let them in and restart their lives. Ira goes on a quick
tour of camps around Greece. (6 1/2 minutes) Greece

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Kids are everywhere in the camps, they’re a third of the refugees. You see them
around, improvising stuff to play with. Ira talks to a woman named Aziza Bashar
about what it’s like to be a parent in a camp. She has six children, the oldest 18,
the youngest five. (16 minutes)Children • Parenting